Towards Synthetic Firewall Policy Generation for Configuration Analysis and Testing

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Presenter: Taghrid Samak (DePaul University)

Researchers are always in need to have a repository of ready made policies for conducting research and development. Such policies are needed for performance testing as well as configuration analysis. We address in this research the challenge of generating representative policies to be used in configuration analysis of firewalls. Two approaches are proposed to provide flexibility and coverage as well as human-like features.